Offering a discount to promote gift card sales can help increase customer spending, maintain customer loyalty, advertise your business, and even attract new customers. Discounts can be applied both in-house by employees at checkoutand online by customers with a promo code.
You cannot create a combination of discounts, such as one for gift cards and products. You will have to create them separately:
Note
Discounts do not apply to fees.
Prerequisites: This feature is only available for all businesses on the web, tablet, Pay Desk, and PayPro. Promo codes require Credit Card Processing and the Online Shopping Cart.
To create a discount for gift cards:
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Go to → → .
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Select New Discount.
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Enter the Discount Name and a Description, and then select the Date & Time you want to make the discount available to customers.
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To configure, select the following options as required:
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Discount Has an Expiration Date: Whether the discount will expire. If so, also select the Expiration Date & Time that the discount will no longer be available.
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Create Promotion Code for Online Shopping Cart: Whether to create a corresponding promo code that customers can apply online when they make a purchase on your Vagaro Listing Page.
Note
If a customer enters a promo code for services and classes, a deposit is required to be able to allow customers to enter.
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Limit Total Number of Uses: Whether a discount can be used by only a limited number of customers. If so, also enter the Total Number of Uses. For example, you may want to offer the discount to only the first 100 customers who book with you.
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Limit to One Use Per Person: Whether you want each customer to be able to use the discount only once.
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Minimum Purchase Amount: Whether to require a minimum purchase amount before the discount can be used.
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Access Level Required to Offer Discount: Whether to limit which employee access levels can offer and redeem discounts.
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Select who the Discount will be redeemable by:
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Existing Customers: Allow the discount to only be used by customers in your Customer List.
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New Customers: Allow the discount to be used only by customers not in your Customer List.
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Employees: Allow your employees to use this discount for personal purchases. The discount will only apply if the employee's profile is selected as a customer during checkout. For example, you can create an employee discount for products and services at your business.
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If you didn't select New Customers, the option to Offer to customers with the following tags will display. You can select from the available customer tags to limit this discount to the customers that are eligible.
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Select what items the Discount will be applied to:
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Single Applicable Item in Cart: The discount will apply to the highest-priced item that's eligible in the customer’s shopping cart.
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All Applicable Items in Cart: The discount will apply to all eligible items in the customer's shopping cart.
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Under Select Discount Type, select the Gift Cards tab.
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Enter the gift card amounts to be discounted.
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Select Add.
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Enter the Gift Card Amount.
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Enter the Discount for the gift card amount. The final Price of the gift card is displayed next to the discount.
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Repeat this step to add more gift card discounts.
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To remove a discount, select the checkbox beside the discount, select Delete, and then confirm that you want to Delete it.
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Select Save.
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On the Discounts screen, verify that the status of the discount is Active.
Comments
2 comments
Why cant I offer discounts on “Sell Gift Cards Based on Services”? It only allows dollar amounts.
Hi Nicole, because these gift cards are based on the price of the service, you'll need to discount the service instead of the gift card.
Thanks, Jamie
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